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TYPEWRITER STORY BY LITTLE JOHNY
n.y., fridy - pritty turf to bepolite arid
then git it in the neck like a newspaper feller
i know here
a cuppel of mornings ago he.gotr-up and put
on his other soot of clothes and hopped a car
for the offis
after a -few blocks a verry nloe-lookin gerl
got onto tMcar, also goin to vox
fares
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t dig uj
Che first horfs
slip jmegng.
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up das
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thati theP11 come around aflex-jhe
ffrst.feggad the gerl, avhpBhoj
around inedtfule, but eh&lfffki
imw verryfegrry, she says Wf cbs Joon, but
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bis our Ke5. wfflth aweWtt smiile And
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da anything for you, maddea, ap-M-
rideffa you;an, 6he replys, Jtadeid you
lJe lend me a nickel sd II can pay
he found when he had flutl onVhis
yhadent tehanged his money!, and he
bnncTeit off- savs thdJohnfTdnTrfci
porDQoatri.ea to De&-fcifS
can 1
kwirejb '
oh, 1
can, sir,
this rude
and then
uther soot he
dident have a
both you
and they done 1
cnen tne poor
lady's pardon,
rummy, before 1
tuff, hey
yung-
bsat it, you cheap
joimy
DIARY OF FATHER TIME
One day in 1845,. a man named
Tramwell, dressed as a Quaker, step
ped' into a train at Slough station,
in England, and traveled to London.
When he arrived at his destination
the innocent-looking Quaker was ar
rested, much to his astonishment, on
the charge of having committed a
foul murder in the neighborhood of
Slough. The news of the murder and
a description of the murderer had
been telegraphed from Slough to
London, where a detective met the
train, arrested the murderer, who in
a short time was tried and hanged,
and the public for the first time real
ized the power for good dormant in
the as yet little developed electric
telegraph. Thirteen years later the
first electric message passed from
the New World to the Old.
The third epoch-making event in
its history is of recent date. On De
cember 12, 1901, Guglielmo Marconi
astonished the world by transmitting
signals from England to Newfpund
land by means of a kite, a long wire,
a delicate tube full of tiny particles
of metal, and a telephone ear piece.